Albert Camus (1913-1960)

Awarded the Prize “for his important literary production, which with clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times.”

French novelist, essayist and playwright. Camus was born in Mondovi, Algeria on November 7, 1913. In 1923 he won a scholarship to the lycée in Algiers, where he studied from 1924 to 1932. In 1936 he received his dipl?me d’étudies supérieures from the University of Algiers in philosophy. His first book appeared in 1937. He was an editor of Gallimard Publisher and founded a newspaper in 1943. Camus died on January 4, 1960 near Sens, France.
Major Works:
The Stranger (1942); The Plague (1947); The Fall (1956)